To determine a spell's total cost, start with the mana cost (or an alternative cost if another card's effect allows you to pay one instead), add any cost increases (such as kicker), then apply any cost reductions. The spell's mana value remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.
The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.
Last observed on Scryfall 2 months ago at $1.11. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $0.40 and $1.11 across 45 observations. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.
This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from WC02 — the lineup includes Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.
Card #bk75sb of *World Championship Decks 2002*, the set that shipped alongside the December 2002 World Championship Decks 2002 release.
Card type: Creature — Human Wizard, color identity black/green/red, printed at uncommon. Uncommons fill the middle-tier slots in a standard booster configuration. Mana cost: {2}{R} (3 converted). Keyword abilities: Kicker.
Legal in Legacy, Vintage, and Commander.
EDHrec ranks this card #29,662 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Mike Ploog. Rarix catalogs 83 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Mike Ploog
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If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."
If you copy a kicked spell on the stack, the copy is also kicked. If the copied spell is a permanent spell, the token the copy of that spell becomes when it enters is also kicked.
If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.
